Triple

T3505793
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Buncombe County, North Carolina E74071 entity
Predicate borderedBy P224 FINISHED
Object McDowell County, North Carolina
McDowell County, North Carolina is a largely rural county in the western part of the state, known for its Appalachian Mountain scenery, outdoor recreation areas, and the city of Marion as its county seat.
E526715 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: McDowell County, North Carolina | Statement: [Buncombe County, North Carolina, borderedBy, McDowell County, North Carolina]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McDowell County, North Carolina
Context triple: [Buncombe County, North Carolina, borderedBy, McDowell County, North Carolina]
  • A. Macon County, North Carolina
    Macon County, North Carolina is a mountainous county in the western part of the state, known for its scenic landscapes in the Appalachian region and its county seat, Franklin.
  • B. Randolph County, North Carolina
    Randolph County, North Carolina is a centrally located county in the state known for its mix of rural communities, manufacturing, and attractions such as the North Carolina Zoo near its county seat of Asheboro.
  • C. Madison County, North Carolina
    Madison County, North Carolina is a rural Appalachian county in the western part of the state, known for its mountainous terrain, outdoor recreation, and historic town of Marshall along the French Broad River.
  • D. Yancey County, North Carolina
    Yancey County, North Carolina is a mountainous county in the western part of the state, known for encompassing Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in the eastern United States.
  • E. Warren County, North Carolina
    Warren County, North Carolina is a rural county in the northeastern part of the state known for its historic towns, agricultural landscape, and role in early civil rights and environmental justice movements.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: McDowell County, North Carolina
Triple: [Buncombe County, North Carolina, borderedBy, McDowell County, North Carolina]
Generated description
McDowell County, North Carolina is a largely rural county in the western part of the state, known for its Appalachian Mountain scenery, outdoor recreation areas, and the city of Marion as its county seat.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McDowell County, North Carolina
Target entity description: McDowell County, North Carolina is a largely rural county in the western part of the state, known for its Appalachian Mountain scenery, outdoor recreation areas, and the city of Marion as its county seat.
  • A. Macon County, North Carolina
    Macon County, North Carolina is a mountainous county in the western part of the state, known for its scenic landscapes in the Appalachian region and its county seat, Franklin.
  • B. Randolph County, North Carolina
    Randolph County, North Carolina is a centrally located county in the state known for its mix of rural communities, manufacturing, and attractions such as the North Carolina Zoo near its county seat of Asheboro.
  • C. Madison County, North Carolina
    Madison County, North Carolina is a rural Appalachian county in the western part of the state, known for its mountainous terrain, outdoor recreation, and historic town of Marshall along the French Broad River.
  • D. Yancey County, North Carolina
    Yancey County, North Carolina is a mountainous county in the western part of the state, known for encompassing Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in the eastern United States.
  • E. Warren County, North Carolina
    Warren County, North Carolina is a rural county in the northeastern part of the state known for its historic towns, agricultural landscape, and role in early civil rights and environmental justice movements.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69ad85ce7a9c81909ddc5cf0cb67a6e3 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbbf38e988190998d722b95830411 completed March 8, 2026, 6:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bfc60426248190947e1c58fe4dd1b1 completed March 22, 2026, 10:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bfc68e23b8819089c22cd1ca5fd321 completed March 22, 2026, 10:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bfc6de1930819084c599e2af7899b1 completed March 22, 2026, 10:39 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.